Saturday afternoons on the terraces, the thwack of leather on willow, warm beer and boating, a day at the races: all are conjured up by this nostalgic and entertaining album of sporting musical favourites from bygone times.

We kick off with the ‘Grandstand’ theme and call time a whole hour later!

Artists

Russ Morgan (vocals), Peter Dawson (baritone), Louis Armstrong (vocals), Bing Crosby (vocals), Paul Robeson (bass-baritone), Sid Field (narrator), Jerry Desmond (narrator)

Queen's Hall Light Orchestra, Studio orchestra, John Scott Trotter Orchestra, Western Brothers, The, Orchestra Mascotte, Layton and Johnstone, Revellers, Flanagan and Allen, Robert Farnon, Studio Conductor, Roger Barsotti, Jack Beaver, Wilfrid Burns, Robert Busby, Peter York, Sidney Torch